Many products claim to provide silky, soft skin, strong nails, and beautifully healthy hair, but each often comes with a hefty price tag. There is a simpler solution that can help with each of these: quality water.
We know high-quality water is crucial to our internal health, and many people have already made the switch to filtered drinking water, but it is arguably equally important to maintaining a healthy exterior. Water from municipal supplies and wells can contain contaminants that, while not necessarily dangerous, can have negative effects on your skin, hair, and nails.
Chlorine Strips More than Harm Away
If you are one of the millions of Americans who receive your water from a municipal supply, your water likely contains chlorine. Chlorine is used during the water filtration process of municipal supplies to combat dangerous bacteria and microorganisms. Although it helps rid your water of harmful contaminants, it can adversely affect your hair, skin, and nails.
When your hair is exposed to chlorine, it strips it and your scalp of natural oils. Removing these oils produces less-than-desirable, dull hair and can make hair products less effective and cause color pigment in color-treated hair to break down more quickly. Likewise, chlorine can also remove natural oils from your skin and dehydrate it, causing it to become dry and itchy, exasperating skin conditions in those with sensitive skin. Additionally, chlorine can cause your nails to become more dry and brittle by breaking down the layers of keratin that form your nails. Moreover, chlorine in a steamy shower can irritate respiratory conditions such as asthma.
The Truth About Minerals in Your Water
Water with a high mineral content, specifically calcium and magnesium, is known as hard water. While minerals are essential to our overall health, bathing in water with high levels of calcium and magnesium can cause issues with your hair, skin, and nails.
With prolonged exposure, hard water can leave mineral deposits behind in your hair, weighing it down and causing build-up at the follicles, leading to breakage. The minerals found in hard water also make it difficult for soaps and cleansers to work as intended because . This reaction causes them to struggle to lather and makes it more challenging to wash the soaps away. This can leave residue behind on your skin and in your hair, and these lingering soaps can dry out your skin and hair. Like chlorine, the minerals found in hard water can also damage the keratin of nails, causing them to be dry and more likely to break.
Hard water not only damages your body, but it can also cause mineral buildup in your pipes and appliances, which may lead to shortened life expectancies of your major appliances and costly repairs.
iSpring Systems that Will Put Your Mind at Ease
At iSpring, we are committed to providing customers with products that will help them address their specific water concerns. We have several suggested systems if you are seeking relief from water that causes dry hair, skin, and nails.
Our WCS50KG is our Elite Series whole-house water softener. This system features a compact design to ensure you enjoy softer skin and hair, brighter laundry, and prevent scale buildup in your pipes and appliances. This system
- employs an automatic backwash and media regeneration that provides the user with hassle-free maintenance, prolongs resin life, and enhances performance.
- features high-quality components to provide reliable water softening.
- has customized control features to offer efficient and tailored water softening.
- produces up to 8 gallons of softened water per minute.
Another recommended system is our WCF200K. Like our WCS50KG, this system is part of our Elite Series of water filtration systems that will help extend the life expectancy of your appliances and will provide you with healthier skin and shiner hair. This system
- employs premium KDF55 and high-quality coconut shell-activated carbon to remove chlorine, lead, PFAS, VOCs, heavy metals, chloramine, radon, herbicides, sediment, and more.
- features customizable backwash cycles to clean and refresh the filter media and ensure continued effectiveness.
- has an intelligent timer-control valve, enabling users to set the timer to trigger the backwash process at specific times and enjoy hassle-free operation.
- produces up to 26 gallons of purified water per minute.
One of our three-stage, whole-house water filtration systems is our WGB32B which protects your home. This system
- features three decisive filtration stages that remove up to 99% of chlorine and up to 95% of sediment, rust, pesticides, herbicides, industrial solvents, and other contaminants that can harm your skin, hair, and nails.
- is installed at the main water supply line to treat all the water in your home.
- has a capacity of 100,000 gallons of water.
- produces up to 15 gallons of purified water per minute.
